1/12/11

****Contest Closed**** :-( You know what? I have cabin fever and I'm cranky because we have WAY too many snowstorms already and it's only the beginning of January people. Of course to make myself feel even worse I read the Farmers Almanac and it said we are going to get a ton of storms. Yay! Wonderful. Isn't that great?So to cheer myself up, I want to make you happy by having a giveaway. See if you're happy then I get happy.I want to give away a couple fabulous cookbooks. If you are a cake lover; a kicked up cake lover that is, like me, then these are the books for you. The winner will receive BOTH of these cookbooks by Warren Brown. The cake god himself. I adore Warren Brown. He is the owner of Cake Love Bakery. Remember when he had the show Sugar Rushon the Food Network? That was such a good, relaxing show; I miss that. That and Gale Gands Sweet Dreams. I wish Warren would come back to TV, but I hear he's a busy man. If you go check out his website, he has a free cake app. How cool is that? And the best part, I hear he's super sweet--definitely a chill person with mad decorating skills; definitely a super nice person you want to bake and create with. Check out his blog too!

All you have to do is leave ONE comment with your name and email address about your all time favorite cake. And you could win BOTH of these cookbooks. Yep both.Let's do the drawing on 1/23/2011.Please no anynomous entries. Have a valid NAME and EMAIL address.It might help you win if you become a fan on FB & Twitter.Hahaha, kidding. I kid, I tease.

223 comments:

WHAT a giveaway! I agree....even the South is getting pounded. Whats up with this craziness? I'd love to win these cook books. I haven't had a lot of experience with cake making and would love to expand my skills. I think the best cake I've ever had was a german chocolate cake. My name is Erica ;) and my email address is itzyskitchen at gmail dot com

My all time favorite cake comes from a recipe I found at my Great Grandmother's house. It's called Hummingbird Cake. It is absolutely delicious and always reminds me of being small at Grandma's house. The recipe combines banana, cinnamon, walnuts, and crushed pineapples. The flavor is so unique and the recipe is tightly guarded in our family. -Kelly, kclay1214@hotmail.com

My all-time favourite cake? This drumstick cake/pie at my family's favourite Italian restaurant back home. Ice cream with peanut butter layers, crunchy peanuts and chocolate syrup... To. die. for. We always get one piece and the four of us share it. I guess it's also my favourite cake because of all the great moments associated with it... :)

How on earth to pick just one? The best cake I have ever eaten - a multi layered plum cake with cream and pastry when I was in Germany. No idea how to make it, but I still think about it 15 years later.

So excited about this - I have been lusting after CakeLove for awhile now... the best cake I ever made was a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, studded with pecans around the outside. Westville restaurants in NYC have amazing carrot cake and chocolate souffles to die for!

my favorite cake is a single round funfetti cake (meaning you have a spare cake, which is always swell to have around), on top of a layer of chocolate ice cream, itself on top of a layer of chocolate, which is, finally, on top of a cake sized cookie. white frosting. eat alone with your roommate, rejoycing about for once not having a crapton of people over eating your food.=)corig123 @ gmail.com

My all-time favorite cake is one I just started baking recently, and I've already been informed by my family that I'm not allowed to bake any other kind! It's a Chocolate-Avocado cake, and yes, it IS slap-your-mama good. :)

My favorite cake is truffe framboise from this bakery in san diego, ca. It has fresh raspberries and layers of chocolate cake. It's also surrounded by a chocolate mousse. Thinking about it makes me want one!

For my 5th birthday my mom made a huge layered cake for my party and made a Christmas Tree (as my birthday's in December) out of icing that stood about 8 inches tall - 5 inches in diameter, complete with "garland", "colored lights", and a "star" on top. It was the most delicious and moist chocolate fudge cake......yum!

I hear ya on the snow, we have been getting slammed up north! My favorite type of cake was an ice cream cake I made last year for my boyfriend's mom. It had vanilla cake on the bottom layer and strawberry ice in the middle and topped with another layer of vanilla cake. Whipped cream and fresh strawberries on top made it even better.

The chocolate fudge with French cream filling I made for the first time as a birthday cake for one of our daughters on Dec. 23 has become my all-time favorite! Taking a narrow lead over German chocolate, which incidentally won me a blue ribbon at the fair two years in a row. I just found your site today!

Fresh Coconut Cake--used to help my grandmother make it at Christmas. She would grate the coconuts herself and let me put the coconut milk on the layers. Then she and my grandfather would make the 7 minute frosting together! Definitely a cake that reminds me of great LOVE and FAMILY :)

What an awesome giveaway!!! Thanks for doing it!!! I live in Idaho and I totally understand your crankiness, I can't wait for spring and summer! My favorite cake has to be plain old vanilla or yellow cake with white chocolate chips and half a can of condensed milk baked and then the rest of the can added to it! Super sweet but amazing!

I have a super-dense chocolate bundt cake that I make that I alter somewhat by adding different liqueurs to the batter. My friends in England refer to it as 'That Chocolate Thing You Do' and request it every time they're stateside!

i love, love, love cake. it's so hard to decide what my fav is. it quite possibly might be a coconut cake that my grandma makes. mmmmmm!my name is brooke. you can contact me at brookeelizabeth5@yahoo.com

The best cake I have ever had was the Betty Crocker recipe for carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, sans walnuts. It`s just too yummy for words.but at the end of the day, Im a `purist. Give me a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting any day.

Wow, thanks for the giveaway! Who doesn't love some good cake? My very favorite cake is from a restaurant in central Florida, so that doesn't really count. But, I also love a good Texas chocolate sheet cake. And Paula Deen's gooey butter cakes are so so good.

Three favorites stand out: Tres Leche cake that I made for the first time this year. Used a recipe by Alton Brown. So good. Second would be "the" cake my Mother-in-law makes for birthdays. It is the chocolate cake recipe found on the can of Hershey's cocoa powder but it is so good. Third would be my Mom's individual pineapple upside down cakes. Yum. - Ilene, ilefkowitz@gmail.com

Awesome! Canèt eat much these days, but when I do partake (and that is WAY too much), cheesecake is like Kryptonite to me. And Black Forest, and chiffon, and limonchello, and tirimisu, and ice cream, and ¨please stop me... I WILL keep going you know! ~ It's sometimes hard being a Diabetic! LOL}

Carrot Cake with Cream cheese frosting. It was my mom's favorite. She's been gone 7 years and we still have it every Thanksgiving because her birthday is at the end of November. It is my fav not only for the awesome recipe but because it makes me feel so good inside when I remember the reason we eat it.

I love eating so much it's terribly difficult to pick a single all-time favourite cake! But upon deeper reflections, it has to be a carrot cake with a whole load of walnuts in it, lined and topped with cheese!! *drools*

My friend makes the best cake. She takes a butter recipe cake mix and makes it as directed but she also adds about 2 cups of Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. The ice cream just makes it sooooo moist. Then we top it with a piece of Hershey's Cookies and Cream candy bar. MMMMMMMM! It's so simple but soooooo delicious!

Fantastic giveaway.My favorite cake is pound cake next to my manderine orange/chocolate cheesecake both of these are the most requested cakes that I make.My name is Laurie and my e-mail is lauriebarton@msn.com

My Favorite Cake is a Cake my Aunt always made for my Dad Bruce whenever we went to visit. She called it Bruce Cake it's a Dense Almond flavored Pound Cake that she baked in a Bundt pan it was always a Choose your own toppings and had to be served Warm.. My Favorite Cake though that i had the Opportunity from Cake love was Crunchy Feet :-)

My favorite cake would have to be hummingbird cake, which is basically a banana and pineapple bundt cake with pineapple icing. I would never have thought to put those two fruits together on my own, but I found this recipe in one of my mom's cookbooks and made it on a whim, and man was it delicious.>>>Kezia, kzstew@aol.com

My all time favorite cake is a homemade apple nut pound cake that I make in a bundt pan with a caramel frosting. omg this is soooo yummy! My email is borncountryllw@yahoo.com Hope I win, I love to bake. Linda

One of the best cakes I've had was actually from The Cake Mix Doctor's Chocolate Cakes book. I forget the exact title of the recipe but it's something like The Best Birthday Cake. A triple layer chocolate cake with ganache filling and a wonderful buttercream frosting. It's great!

My favorite cake is my Grandma's homemade yellow cake with homemade chocolate fudge frosting. My mouth waters just thinking about it. She's been gone for many years now and I always ask my Mom to make it for me for my birthday.

My favorite cake is the one my 4 kids and amazing hudband make me on my birthday. It's an orange cake-with x-tra orange juice concentrate in it and extra orange zest. Then they make their own Paula Dean-inspired orange cream cheese icing-again with extra concentrate and zest. So gooooooood. And my 7 yr old says she blows kisses into the batter. Life is GOOD!

My favorite cake is Wacky Chocolate Cake with Richmond Chocolate Frosting. The frosting is cooked on the stove, you pour it on the cake hot and let it set up to a thick, rich pudding-like frosting. YUM! I make it for everyone's birthday and everyone raves about it!Patty - ohsweetpea@hotmail.com

It is way too hard to narrow down to an "all-time-favorite", but one of the top 10 (and most recently made) is a dark chocolate gingerbread. It's super dense, moist, made in a bundt pan & topped with confectioners' sugar. Perfect winter-time cake!

All time favorite- that's a big bite. Well, I'd have to say Spiced Cake with Orange Cream Cheese icing. Mmmm, now I want cake. I have recently started decorating cakes and am always looking for new recipes to try out. :)Alice Duttonalicedutton@gmail.com

Black Magic Cake can satisfy my chocolate/childish/creative desires....anytime! I used to call it, "Aunt Mary Grace's Black Magic Cake," due to the fact it was in upstate New York where I first found this tasty feast in my Great Aunt's kitchen. She was the kind of cook who'd cook with one hand and smoke with the other. Her finished products always brought a bit of heaven to my taste buds (despite the nastiness of the ashes she was sure to have deposited whilst stirring the pot). Yes, Black Magic Cake can bring joy to anyone's heart. I guar.an.tee. My name is Tracy and my email is tip6inc@yahoo.com

My mom used to get me this regular store-bought sheet cake for my birthday when I was a kid, and there was just one thing that was special about it. It was mocha! I LOOOOOOOVE mocha flavored stuff, and the icing on this cake was to DIE for. I've tried for years to find something similar, and I've never managed. Maybe someday I'll just have to reverse-engineer it.

My all time favorite cake is a German cake with almonds and apricots. I had it when I visited several years ago, and i've never found anything in the states that compares. It was about an inch of almond cake topped with custard, then a gelatin of apricots, orange segments, and slivered almonds. So moist and absolutely amazing!

love the books…have taken cake love from local library & enjoyed his back story!i love cheesecakes (layers of mocha, espresso or chocolate) with dark chocolate ganache…thanks for including me in this giveaway!!

My favorite cake is my brother's mint chocolate chip ice cream cake with dark chocolate ganache...It is to DIE FOR! The mint infuses the chocolate, and the cake is so moist for an ice cream/flourless...SO GOOD! If I win, I will definitely be sharing the books with him. I can cook a mean dinner, but he is the one to follow it up with a real sweet dessert! Thanks! Caiti caitismiles@gmail.com

My favorite cake (like it's actually possible to choose just one!) would have to be a flourless chocolate cake I make. It is so fudgy and rich- you just have to keep straightening out the edges!(if you know what I mean!)

My all time favorite cake is a Kentucky Butter Rum cake. It is super yummy, and the recipe is so easy, my hubby managed to make one for my birthday this year. I gave the recipe to one of my blogging friends, and she posted about it here if anyone wants the recipe.

This cake is one of my favorites. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pineapple-Coconut-Layer-Cake-10154 I know it as Dominican Cake. Another long time favorite is Orange Cake using the cake recipe from "Memories of a Cuban Kitchen" and the Lemon (in this case Orange) Buttercream recipe from Magnolia Bakery

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